Thursday, April 24, 2008

COMMENTS: A win tonight would give the Dodgers their first series sweep of the season. What? It's only a two-game series? And winless Billingsley is on the mound, meaning that somewhere in his first five innings, he's bound to lose control (Bills was coasting during his last start in Atlanta until a rough 35-pitch fifth inning)? Well, now that we're the second-place Dodgers (and only four games out of the wild card with a mere 140 to play), let's see if our luck will turn against Gonzalez and his 4.50 ERA (in line with his stats from 2006 and 2007).

Alas, I will not be joining you boys (and Karina), as I have dinner plans. I had tickets for the game, but an $11 pavilion seat is easy to give up when you only have one chance to say goodbye to a good friend.

I'll be at tomorrow night's game, so you'll miss me around here again. I don't know how you'll survive.

I just came back home from a conference titled: "5.000 years of baseball" and the journalist who gave it asked:

If you were the manager of a team playing the 7th game of the World Series and your starting rotation were:Sandy Koufax (it was the first name he gave and suddenly i felt this warm feeling)Juan MarichalNolan RyanCy YoungJohan Santana

Everyone of them at the peak of their careers, who would you choose to start said game?

Gameday. Directv Extra Innings is very different in South America. I get a couple (sometimes three) games a day and the Strike Zone Channel, so i kinda get the updates there (and this is the most expensive package).

Last year, i had MLB.tv but since i live in a country with foreign currency control exchange and the limit of dollars that i could spend online was dramatically lowered (it went from a maximum of 3000 to a maximum of 400), i couldn't buy this year's package, since those dollars would be used (hopefully) this year to pay some stuff for spring training next year.

There are some Egyptian hieroglyphs that show pharaohs hitting, running and fielding to pay homage to Osiris (side note: egyptian deity of fertility), so Osiris gave them lots of fertile fields and women.

that's why it's called 5000 years of baseball, more?

(i took 5 college courses about art and design history and i had to memorize lots of information, why didn't my teachers say info like this?)

I forgot to mention this hitting, running and fielding religious rites ("i believe in the church of baseball", it's actually accurate) was done in spring.

These activities were lost, since the barbaric tribes that formed most of European countries today after the fall of Roman Empire didn't have notions of organized sports that didn't include violence (gladiators, anyone?).Greece, though they conceived sports pretty much as we conceived them today, they were more into naked young muscled men running and jumping.

YAY! i have always been afraid not to be at Dodger Stadium so i guess i'll be there sometime. I thought about switching Arizona for LA and being there for the World Baseball Classic, but if Venezuela doesn't make to the semifinals, i'm gonna be pretty heart-broken.

I guess it's better watching batting practice and practice games, dreaming about a new season full of hope.

He did talk about some study made in the US. It consisted to take some small boys to a sort of a closed court, with sand, some rocks and sticks. Most of them would throw the rocks and hitting them with sticks.

Another piece of interesting trivia: there are some statues in the Arqueological Museum of Mexico, depicting a man holding a stick, standing at his right side, they call it "the hitter", there's other one of a man sitting at his knees, called "the catcher". There are more statues like that at the mexican olympical committee.However, no one can scientifically prove they played something like baseball or rounders.but, how cool is that?

Some aborigins who lived in Puerto Rico, Cuba and Dominican Republic called "Tainos", had a game called "batos", but they also can't prove it was an antecedent for baseball, but lots of awesome players have been born between those 3 islands.

Yes, it is. If filmmaking had dissapeared as an art form after Casablanca, it wouldn't have really mattered (even Fellini, Wenders, French New Wave, et al). Perfect script, cinematography, sound, editing, wardrobe, art direction, performances and direction, even with the technological advances of nowadays. It's like Koufax: classic and timeless!